News from the Church in Malta
To mark the first 500 days of the pontificate of Pope Francis, the Argentinian weekly “Viva” (a supplement of the newspaper El Clarín) on Sunday published the first excerpts of an interview with Pope Francis conducted earlier this month.
Pope Francis reflected on many things – including his memories of his youth, social issues such as immigration, and even the secret of happiness…
Bħal kull sena, ma’ tmiem sena skolastika, id-Direttorat tal-Edukazzjoni fi ħdan is-Segretarjat tal-Edukazzjoni nisranija jorganizza tlett ijiem ta’ taħriġ għall-Kindergarten Assistants kif ukoll learning support assistants fl-iskejjel kindergarten tal-Knisja.
Din is-sena dan il-kors sar fl-iskola St. Anġela, f’Tas-Sliema, u attendew għalih madwar sebgħin participanta mill-iskejjel St. Anġela, Teresa Nuzzo, St. Francis, St. Monica, St. Joseph u anke St. Tereża, u l-Konservatorju t’Għawdex…
The organisers of the largest petition in European history which called for an end to European funding of research that destroys human embryos have taken their case to the General Court of the European Union after the European Commission vetoed the initiative in May.
On July 25th, members of the Citizen’s Initiative “One of Us” lodged an application before the court in Luxembourg against the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, and the European Parliament, asking for the annulment of the Commission’s veto…
The Department of Assessment together with subject Heads of Department within the Secretariat for Catholic Education, and all educators at St. Elias College, St. Francis School, and St. Albert the Great College, came together to discuss and share practices of how ‘Assessment for Learning’ can be implemented in their teaching.
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Pope Francis on Sunday made another urgent appeal for an end to the conflicts in the Middle East, in Iraq and in Ukraine. Speaking after his regular Angleus address to thousands of people gathered in a hot and sunny St Peter’s Square, the Pope spoke of the victims of war, in particular the children who die or are injured and orphaned by the violence…
“….bambini morti, bambini feriti, bambini mutilate….”
I think especially, the Pope said, of the children whose hopes for a dignified future are taken from them, dead children, injured and mutilated children, orphans and children who have bits of weapons as toys, children who don’t know how to smile…
The Foundation of the Convent of the Sacred Heart School, which belonged to the Society of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, will now fall under the responsibility of the Archbishop of Malta. This follows an agreement which was signed today, Wednesday 23rd July 2014, between Sr Bernardette Porter, Treasurer, and Sr Carmen Valentino, Delegate, on behalf of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and Dr Michelle Tabone on behalf of Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P…
Pope Francis appointed Rev. Dr Hector Scerri to be one of the Consultors of one of the Dicasteries of the Holy See – the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity. Fr Scerri, 48, is Head of the Department of Dogmatic Theology at the University of Malta where he has been lecturing for the last sixteen years. He is currently President of the Theological Commission of the Maltese Episcopal Conference and President of the Ecumenical Commission of the Archdiocese of Malta…
“I have received with some concern the news from the Christian communities of Mosul, Iraq, and from other parts of the Middle East who, ever since the beginnings of Christianity, have co-existed there alongside their fellow citizens, making a significant contribution to the good of society”, said the Pope after Sunday’s Angelus prayer. “Today they are persecuted. Our brothers are persecuted, they are cast out, they are forced to leave their homes without having the chance to take anything with them…
Fl-1 ta’ Settembru li ġej, ser jiġi inawgurat ċentru ta’ matul il-jum għall-ħarsien tat-tfal, fid-Dar Qalb ta’ Ġesù, St Venera. L-isem li ġie mogħti huwa ‘Arzella’. Dan iċ-Ċentru ser jilqa’ fiħ tfal ta’ taħt it-tliet snin. Matul dawn l-aħħar għoxrin sena, il-Knisja f’Malta fetħet u mexxiet ħames ċentri bħal dawn għal tfal li ma jkollhomx ħtieġa jidħlu f’dar residenzjali. Dawn twaqqfu bil-koperazzjoni ta’ diversi ordnijiet reliġjużi, l-Uffiċċju Ċentrali EJJEW GĦANDI u bosta benefatturi…
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that no right to same-sex “marriage” can be imposed by the EU on member states, and that to say otherwise would be a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Court said in a ruling in Strasbourg on July 16 that the Convention cannot be interpreted “as imposing an obligation” on states that are signatories to the treaty “to grant same-sex couples access to marriage.”
Although the Court had previously found no such right exists in the Convention, it went further in its latest ruling, stating that in Article 12 the treaty “enshrines the traditional concept of marriage as being between a man and a woman [and] cannot be construed as imposing an obligation on the Contracting States to grant access to marriage to same-sex couples.”
In addition, it found that no consensus in favour of same-sex “marriage” exists in Europe because only ten of the 47 signatories to the Convention have legalised it…
